October 2015
Earth independence: new definitions of home on Mars missions and beyond
... Shuttle Columbia. He left Earth believing he would return to Florida aboard the shuttle. Instead, he landed in Kazakhstan in a Russian Soyuz vehicle. Don told me that when they opened the hatch and he smelled the grass and dirt...
January 2016
200 Days in Space: Living in Orbit
... both veterans of previous space flights. I’ve dreamt of being part of a spaceship crew since I was a child. We flew up in the Soyuz spacecraft, which small at about 7 m from the front to back. What’s really amazing is that we arrived in space after...
August 2016
Fireflies and saucers
During his first orbital flight on the Mercury-6 spacecraft, astronaut John Glenn noticed a strange phenomenon. The spacecraft was in orbit and, when the Sun came up, he reported with great excitement that he was surrounded by thousands of small ...
August 2016
Polish Space Agency pursues task of developing country’s space expertise
... conducting physics experiments, among others. In 1978 the Polish astronaut, Miroslaw Hermaszewski went to space on the Soviet Soyuz-30 spaceship. The purpose of the trip was an eight day mission to conduct experiments on the Soviet station Salyut...
September 2016
Paediatric cancer patients aim for the stars with space inspired art project
..., I recently watched a video on YouTube of the handshake that took place in space as part of the 1975 Apollo Soyuz mission. This incredible international collaboration and celebration of connectivity took place at the height of a global conflict and...
January 2017
Prospects for progress on space security diplomacy
... a symbol of cooperation. Here, three vehicles are simultaneously attached - Orbital ATK’s Cygnus cargo craft (left), Russia’s Soyuz MS-01 vehicle (middle) and the Russian Progress 64 cargo craft (right.) This resolution was viewed by several states...
